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Representatives to the South East

Robert Wicks

Robert Wicks has been brewing beer since he was eight. In 2004 he left the banking industry to start commercial brewing. The Westerham Brewery will celebrate its fifth birthday in 2009 continuing to brew award winning beers with Kent hops. Robert is passionate about local ingredients and has worked very closely with the National Trust to replant organic hops at Scotney Castle in Lamberhurst.

Eddie Gadd, Ramsgate Brewery

Eddie Gadd
Ramsgate Brewery

Eddie’s from Blackpool but he married an Essex girl, so they live in Kent. Politics cut short his career as a mining engineer and after a couple of years contracting as a tunnelling engineer he discovered Brewing Beer, the Firkin Way, and got hooked on it. A foreshortened (drop out) spell studying the Masters Degree in Malting and Brewing Science at Heriot-Watt followed redundancy and he went into a brew-pub joint venture. That ended after 4 years and Eddie hauled his plant up to a light industrial unit where business has flourished.

He’s isn’t as fat, hairy or old as most people seem to imagine. And if you ring him on 07967 660060 after about 4pm he can be friendly too. Or email eddie@ramsgatebrewery.co.uk .

Dave Pickersgill
Oakleaf Brewery

News articles from the South East Region:

• Top Quality Hops From Wet Summer Mean Better Beer in UK
• Operation Green Hop
• New Head Brewer for WJ King
• Sudan’s south finally able to slake its thirst for beer
• Ascot Ales scoops top spot at Reading Beer Festival 2010
• Mill Green’s Own Barley is Being Malted
• Brodie’s Brainwave!
• Small brewers taking on the global giants
• InteliTap new contractor to Keg Watch in South East
• Real Ale Reviews
• The British Are Coming! Cotleigh & Laverstoke Park Ship Beer to the US.
• Outstanding products win prestigious National Trust ‘Fine Farm Produce Award’
• Local pubs and breweries hold key to responsible drinking
• Lovibonds Rated Best in the World!
• Dark Star to increase brewing capacity 300%
• Chris Wormell and Adnams Beers
• Proof that the grain and the grape do mix
• Return of the Hand Painted Pub Sign - Grove Tavern
• Itchen Valley meets Sir Gerry
• Gold, Silver & Bronze for Ascot Ales!
• SIBA South East Region Meeting
• A. E. Chapman & Son Ltd Launch 500ml Lightweight Beer Bottles at 300gms
• SIBA a name for every occassion
• GADDS’ Number 3 Pale Ale - ‘Best Kentish Beer’
• Kent’s Westerham Brewery purchases first pub
• Itchen Valley Improvements
• Hogs Back Brewery and Mo the Brewster score 4,000 not out
• Sustainable Communities Act London Public Meeting
• ‘A Beer A Day’
• SIBA South East Region AGM
• Ballards Beer Walk
• Chancellor guilty of ‘gross cultural vandalism’
• Keltek Brewery announces investment in new plant
• Hampshire hogs real ale limelight
• Closing time?
• Politics Show - South East
• Hogs Back Brewery Win at Falmouth Festival
• Itchen Valley launches new website
• Olympic Rowers Reach for Henley Gold
• Westerham Brewery Gains Two Prestigious Awards
• Ascot Ales Deliver in Style
• Champion Beer Of Britain
• Brewery boss slams call to ban drink ads
• Anastasia’s Exile Stout Wins Gold At Reading
• Arundel’s Prizefighter reaches Sainsbury’s final
• Local Award-Winning Beer arrives in Tesco
• Launching a new brewery - in medieval style
• Nelson Brewing Comment About The Budget
• Fuller’s gives thousands to seafarers
• Boris Johnson Opens Lovibonds Brewery
• Brewery to give five pence a pint to sailors
• The Hop Farm Beer Festival 2007
• CAMRA matches winning beers to great food
• Champion Beer of Britain Awards 2007
• Thriving ale market fuels Ringwood deal
• Meantime launches London stout
• Mixed Reaction From Brewers To Ringwood Takeover
• Local brewers take on the world
• Council blunder leaves ban up in smoke…
• CAMRA voices concern over Ringwood takeover
• Meantime psychosis reverses osmosis
• Meantime Sponsorship of CAMRA Fest Success
• Bowman is a hit!
• UK smoking ban prompts action from Fullers
• Forces step up glass action
• ‘William Wilberforce Freedom Ale’ Bottle Condition
• Launch of Twickenham‘s 2007 “Spring Ale”
• Hogs Back Bike - the new delivery vehicle
• William Wilberforce Freedom Ale
• Small Brewer Takes Top Beer Prize!
• Royal Warrent - Chiltern Valley Winery & Brewery
• London win in regional beer poll
• Stumpy’s Brewery mark 25 years since the Falklands
• Itchen Valley Brewery launches new website
• Westerham Brewery supply another beer to Waitrose
• The Ten Best Bottled British ales
• Westerham agrees supply deal with Waitrose
• Ringwood Barley
• Itchen Valley Brewery new address
• New tank gives brewer capacity to lift output
• Hole Hearted retains position as best in Hampshire
• Westerham Brewery win two medals
• The Itchen Valley Brewery - Website Development
• The Itchen Valley Brewery - Relocation
• CAMRA: Champion winter beer of Britain announced
• Fuller’s Acquires Gale’s For £92m
• SIBA to go to Brussels
• Ale for Hay Fever
• Britain’s Top 10 Must Try Beers
• SIBA Brewer taken over